Speculation increased, as recounted in a 2008 article in the Toronto Star: "Speculation ranges from natural disasters, such as the tsunami of 2004, to the work of drug dealers, serial killers and human traffickers.
Given the amount of money they had to spend, and the amount of attention their work was receiving from the media, many agencies decided to make model projects out of their tsunami relief work.But some delays are the result of simple ineptitude rather than complex planning.
UNICEF works very closely with the UNJLC, and during the first three months of the tsunami relief work, UNICEF Supply Division seconded six staff members to work on emergency logistics operations.
According to official reports, the cost of the restoration and renovation of the water and sewage systems after the tsunami was 389.9 million rupees, >2× the projected cost of work on the water and sanitation systems (172.9 million rupees) prior to the tsunami (4 ).
This was of course, music to my ears, as well as many of the other lovely ladies I got to share some calendar space with, including Liya Kebede, who works on maternal health; Petra Nemcova, who started the Happy Hearts Fund after surviving the tsunami of 2004; and Kyleigh Kuhn, who works closely with women in Afghanistan with Twenty Four Suns and Roots of Peace.
Elwes, whose stepfather was a movie producer, worked as a PA on film sets as a teenager (he once chauffeured Roger Moore to the set of Octopussy – "I'm driving James Bond!"), and was cast in The Princess Bride at 23. Talking about the cast brought forth frothy turns of phrase: "I was working with a tsunami of talent," he says at least three times.
Humanitarians working with this tsunami of data face a difficult situation: their efficiency can benefit from the crisis data, but the high volume makes big data difficult to tame humanitarians working with big data are akin to a thirsty person drinking from a fire hose.
That's what happened to me on Tuesday, while I was working, an impressive tsunami of citizens at Neptuno Square howled for their right to dissent with the politicians who claim to represent them, as they were in session in Congress.
The second, which may turn out to be even more catastrophic than the earthquake and the tsunami, is the work of man.
But meditation works slowly and this tsunami of love and attachment doesn't knock gently at the front door.
